Miscellaneous - Deputy Earl Marshal's Warrant For Proclaiming the Declaration of Peace With Germany [1919-07-01]

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Title

Miscellaneous - Deputy Earl Marshal's Warrant For Proclaiming the Declaration of Peace With Germany [1919-07-01]

Subject

Foreign Affairs
Ceremonial

Description

Warrant of Lord Edmund Talbot directing the Officers of Arms to proclaim the declaration of peace with Germany that ended World War I.

Creator

Lord Edmund Talbot (Deputy Earl Marshal)

Source

College of Arms I78/110

Date

1919-07-01

Contributor

Mark Scott

Coverage

Germany

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Transcript

Whereas His Majesty by and with the advice of His Most Honourable Privy Council was pleased by an Order in Council bearing date the First day of July instant to order that I should give directions to the Kings of Arms, Heralds, Pursuivants, and other necessary Officers to cause the Proclamation of this day’s date declaring Peace with the German Government to be proclaimed at the customary times and places, and with the usual solemnities. These are therefore in His Majesty’s name to will and require you to assemble to assemble at Saint James’s Palace tomorrow at half past eleven o’clock in the forenoon habited with His Majesty’s Coat of Arms and to read and publish the Royal Proclamation of Peace at the places heretofore accustomed on similar occasions and with the usual solemnities: And I do hereby further to require you to cause the said Order in Council and these Presents to be registered in the College of Arms Given under my hand and the Seal of the Earl Marshal this First day of July 1919.

Edmund B. Talbot,
Deputy Earl Marshal

To the Kings Heralds and Pursuivants of Arms

Ornamentation

This text is taken from a handwritten transcript of the document and may not reflect the formatting of the original.

Special Features

This was the last time a state of peace was formally proclaimed.

Citation

Lord Edmund Talbot (Deputy Earl Marshal), “Miscellaneous - Deputy Earl Marshal's Warrant For Proclaiming the Declaration of Peace With Germany [1919-07-01],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/583.

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